According to modern Feminist theory, women are emotionally fragile and delicate creatures who must be treated like children and protected from the harsh realities of life. They tend to be overcome with “the vapors” when exposed to strange, new ideas, and must therefore be sent to “safe spaces” — equipped with Play-Doh, and crayons, and teddy bears — to recover when hearing a politically incorrect opinion leaves them faint.
In this spirit, the new female, minority chairhead of Reddit has decided that since women are too fragile to compete in the business world at the level of men… all salary negotiations will be banned going forward.
As Reddit’s interim CEO, Pao said she wants to eliminate salary negotiations from the company’s hiring process.
In her first interview since the lawsuit, Pao told with the Wall Street Journal Monday that the plan would help level the playing field.
“Men negotiate harder than women do and sometimes women get penalized when they do negotiate,” she said. “So as part of our recruiting process we don’t negotiate with candidates. We come up with an offer that we think is fair. If you want more equity, we’ll let you swap a little bit of your cash salary for equity, but we aren’t going to reward people who are better negotiators with more compensation.”
An interesting side effect of this is that it puts all the power on the side of the employer. Instead of negotiating a better deal for one’s skills, the employee is stuck with a one-size-fits-all salary, with only the choice of taking it or leaving it. (A lot of “progressive” policies seem to have the side effect of concentrating power in the hands of authoritarian.)
And here’s something interesting. The Reddit Chairhead filed a sexual discrimination complaint against a previous employer … and lost.
Last Friday, a jury decided that the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers did not discriminate or retaliate against Pao in a case that debated gender imbalance and working conditions for women in Silicon Valley.
Just putting that out there.
This isn’t just feminist think, it is UNION think, as well. Everyone who does a certain job gets the same amount, no matter how good or how poor they are at it.
And Socialist think, too. Equal pay for equal labor, even when that labor isn’t equal.
Except the union executives, you mean …
It’s amazing how well conditioned Leftists are. The government can trample all over their rights… as long as it’s in the name of national security, or marriage equality, or whatever the heck Leftists care about. A CEO can rescind potential employees’ negotiating power… as long as they say it’s to help women. So many Leftists are truly gullible.
How does one learn how to negotiate but by doing it? Seems like Elaine wants ALL people, women included, to be under the thumb of a non-union/union company headed by her. Bet she negotiated her salary. All hail the Empress.
Leftists right now are more fascist than Marxist but they don’t see it.
The most telling line this this: “If you want more equity, we’ll let you swap a little bit of your cash salary for equity, but we aren’t going to reward people who are better negotiators with more compensation.”
So they’ll give you more worthless “equity” in their non-public stock, in exchange for a lower salary. The only thing more of a rip-off is if she started to consider all her employees as ‘independent contractors’. Those who’ve been victimized by that scam know it all to well.
“pay me for performance not attendance” That said when they call you with a job offer is the time to make a small error on what the offer was ie ” you said the position was for x+ 20-30 cents higher.”
I’m so tired of this progressive nonsense. How about some syncopation and real females?…………..Ah, that’s better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uds7g3M-4lQ&feature=youtu.be
Ahem:”don’t negotiate” is absolute; “we think is fair” is totally subjective. There is neither argument nor justification here. Just “my way or the highway” despotic decree.
She-who-must be-obeyed has spoken. Do not mess with her dictum as it impugns her competency and reveals the inherent sexist character deficiency of the bigoted male who dares challenge her.
If a male CEO made that same announcement, there would be a DOJ investigation and he’s be forced to publicly-resign in disgrace. **crickets from the Left**
Maybe it’s time to bring back the fainting couch?
@Dachs_dued, it would not be seen as such a scam if employees had, on their paycheck, a list of all of the expenses an employer has to mete out to employ them as a grand total, then had all that additional money taken off again. Then be told that, as an independent contractor, they would become responsible for paying each and every one of these taxes on their own.
Reminds me of when Saturn was a car company. They advertized their “no-haggle” prices. Their marketing was geared to women. It was more of a support group than a car company.
I had to remind a woman I knew that EVERY car company is “no-haggle” if you just pay them whatever they ask.